Surrounded!

I am surrounded! Many interesting things happening around an entrepreneur geek these days 🙂 Let me share with you what’s on my mind!

Idea to Reality in $100K and 6 months
That’s a special offer we have for people with innovative ideas. We will put a hand picked team of 6 on the idea for 6 months and get the idea to reality! We got very good response from the existing clients to this offer and are detailing the ideas now. I think the next quarter is going to get me lot of opportunities to express my passion for building usable web apps that deliver business results!

20% More Productivity Improvement through technology
That was the theme of the month for November 2007 in Magnet. In today’s Monthly Review Meeting (happens every first Tuesday), I was pleasantly surprised to see almost everyone achieving more than 15% productivity gains in the non-programming teams. I have seen their progress over the last month, and I am really glad they delivered such wonderful results. The programming teams were behind – affected by holiday leaves, project deliveries and other priorities.

My invitation to everyone is to be on the playing ground, hold a bat, face the ball, and hit it hard! Because spectators and coaches can’t make the runs. It’s the batsman who produces results!

Extending the organizational drive on focusing on our strengths, we then created focusing on the 20% of strengths that give us 80% of results as the theme for December! Looking at what the team has done so far, I think I will be a proud person after January’s monthly review meeting!

Power of Intention
Piyush, one of my school friends, asked me to get this book – “The Power of Intention” by Wayne W. Dyer for him. I started reading a few pages and I am gripped! I have heard (and even experienced) before that the whole world aligns to fulfill your intentions. Over the past ten days, many things I intended are starting to happen. I am not sure if there are any higher forces at play when you are really motivated and committed to a goal, but I am certainly interested in finding out how this happens. I am going to read this further! May be on the way to foss.in!

foss.in/2007 – hacking, meeting, lightning talks
foss.in/2007 has started! As I write this, Kartik would be talking about Mozilla Indic Localization, filling in for Ankit. I will be there on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and am looking forward to meet old pals and new friends! Also to hack around, do a lightning talk and have fun! It feels odd not speaking there after so many years 😉

Hacking Android
I have an itch! To hack around Android and build something. Actually build something that can be pitched in the developers’ challenge too! Let’s see how many others want to try this out at foss.in!

Getting ready for the wedding!
Ok, so it’s around the corner! 19th Jan is coming closer, and I still have lot of things to do! Invitation cards are printed, I have a lot of shopping to do and pay the advance for the honeymoon tour! Oh well, it was another story to select the honeymoon destination and whether to go on our own or in a group tour. These days I am busy attending relatives’ weddings and other functions!

And a lot of other things!
And sure, there are other things. Many! The mobile web book is moving well, many interesting projects on the floor and in the pipeline and a lot of new learnings.

I am having fun!